 /*
  * Copyright (C) 2005 db4objects Inc. http://www.db4o.com
  *
  * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
  * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
  * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
  * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
  *
  * Contributors:
  * db4objects - Initial API and implementation
  */
 package org.eclipse.core.internal.databinding.conversion;

 import org.eclipse.core.databinding.conversion.IConverter;

 /**
  * Converts any object to a string by calling its toString() method.
  */
 public class ObjectToStringConverter implements IConverter {
     private final Class fromClass;

     /**
      *
      */
     public ObjectToStringConverter() {
         this(Object .class);
     }

     /**
      * @param fromClass
      */
     public ObjectToStringConverter(Class fromClass) {
         this.fromClass = fromClass;
     }

     /*
      * (non-Javadoc)
      *
      * @see org.eclipse.jface.binding.converter.IConverter#convert(java.lang.Object)
      */
     public Object convert(Object source) {
         if (source == null) {
             return ""; //$NON-NLS-1$
 }
         return source.toString();
     }

     public Object getFromType() {
         return fromClass;
     }

     public Object getToType() {
         return String .class;
     }

 }

